
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed that a five-member expert committee be set up to recommend guidelines for verifying those applying for prepaid mobile connections. A bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia, Justice AK Ganguly and Justice Swatanter Kumar, in its judgment, said the committee would be headed by the secretary, department of telecommunications (DoT), and have two members each from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)...

04:30 AM, Apr 28, 2012

Shillong: Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Mukul M Sangma today inaugurated Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) at Ampati Sub Divisional Office (Civil) in Garo Hills of Meghalaya. Addressing the gathering Sangma said, "WiMAX is the latest technology being deployed for high speed data connection for long distances." WiMAX is basically a type of certification given to an equipment supplier by WiMAX forum, an official press release said. "The two driving...

08:47 AM, Nov 11, 2011

New Delhi: There are nearly four crore mobile phone connections in Delhi, which has a population of 1.68 crore, with the connections taken by city residents witnessing over 50 per cent increase in 2010-11. According to statistics released by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today, more than one crore mobile connections were taken by people in the city during 2010-11. The number of connections in 2009-2010 was 2.82 crore which has...

01:56 PM, Nov 04, 2011

Consumers cry foul after Centre abolishes pre-paid SIMS. ...

01:38 PM, Nov 01, 2009

Individual Internet connections are unlikely to face any problem. ...

01:33 AM, Dec 22, 2008

Indian Oil Corporation is doing this to cut losses. ...

01:40 AM, Aug 01, 2008

Pre-paid SIM cards would be activated only after the copies of documentary proof submitted by the customer. ...

03:35 PM, Dec 01, 2006